Wrvs Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. Office.
Wrvs Offices
- WRENN ID
- stranded-nave-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1995
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Wrvs Offices, Thurnham Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 478 613
- Coordinates
- 54.04591, -2.79805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The WRVS Offices, originally a house, was built in 1844 and is now vacant. It is constructed from squared coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a hipped slate roof. The building has a symmetrical design, consisting of two storeys and three bays, with a plinth, chamfered quoins, and a first-floor sill band. The windows are glazing bar sashes set within stone architraves. The stone doorcase is adorned with Tuscan pilasters that have sunken panels, topped with a cornice featuring a plain frieze and blocking course. The eaves overhang is supported by paired timber brackets, and there is a chimney located to the right. To the left, set back, is a wall that includes a door with a plain stone surround on the ground floor. Above this door is a stone that is carved with a sunken cross and the date '1844'.
Local climate
Wrvs Offices sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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